Essays Tagged: "legislators"

Censorship in America

om being exposed to such material. These are some questions that people need to ask them selves and legislators. Should magazine companies, such as Playboy, Penthouse, etc, be prohibited from publishi ...

(3 pages) 116 0 3.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Schizophrenia research paper

significance to manyindividuals with serious mental disorders. At both the state and federal levels,legislators looked at the high cost of long-term psychiatric hospitalization. Socialscientists guara ...

(5 pages) 449 2 4.1 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Schizophrenia

significance to manyindividuals with serious mental disorders. At both the state and federal levels,legislators looked at the high cost of long-term psychiatric hospitalization. Socialscientists guara ...

(7 pages) 156 0 4.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Cogressional Term Limits

es, a rottenness begins in his conduct.' (Oxford dictionary of quotations, p.272) Over time, career legislators are more likely to promote the interest of the establishment of which they are part than ... re less likely to have a real life before entering politics. Many political pros start out as state legislators in their early twenties and never stop. (Crane (2), p. 251) Validating this statement is ...

(7 pages) 95 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

US Term Limits - United States Constitution

tution of the United States was adopted in 1789, it was without direction regarding term limits for legislators. At the time, professional politicians were unheard of, and the idea of someone serving ... citizens who live and work in the real world -- the private sector -- to represent them. Not career legislators... It would allow good people from across the political spectrum to...participate in the ...

(12 pages) 259 1 2.1 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

The American Change An analyse of Lyndon B. Johnson's Inaugural Address

was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as President. Using skills of persuasion and calling on the legislators' respect for Kennedy, Johnson succeeded in gaining passage of the Civil Rights Act in 19 ...

(10 pages) 110 1 4.6 Oct/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

End the vehicular taxes

Audience: This essay will address the subcommittee on vehicular taxes. The subcommittee consists of legislators who for the most part are are well educated and well-informed individuals. This essay wi ... d well-informed individuals. This essay will appeal a recently passed 18% tax on off road vehicles. Legislators may prove to be stubborn so a convincing argument is a must.Necessities are a common thi ...

(18 pages) 48 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

School vouchers

VouchersThe emphasis on improving public education in the United States has been growing for years. Legislators, privately owned companies, school boards and community organizations are trying to come ...

(3 pages) 190 2 4.5 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

September 11th .

en used as a monetary profit in the state of New York. The Governor, along with many of the State's legislators or looking for ways to compensate for their budget deficit and one such way is to increa ... o recover from an economic slump is totally wrong and is also wrong on the Governor and the State's Legislators part.The State University of New York (SUNY) Board of Trustee along with the Governor Ge ...

(3 pages) 48 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Democracy in politics.

e are elected. In typical constitutional monarchies such as the United Kingdom and Norway, only the legislators are elected, and from their ranks a cabinet and a prime minister are chosen.Although oft ...

(41 pages) 1420 1 3.9 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

"Abortion".

th of pregnancy. Through the efforts primarily of physicians, the American Medical Association, and legislators, most abortions in the US had been outlawed by 1900. Illegal abortions were still freque ...

(5 pages) 112 0 5.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Drug Abuse: Should Marijuana be legalized?

ing the drug would pose negative effects upon public health and well-being.The main argument of pro-legislators of Marijuana is that of its therapeutic uses. The drug is said to be a source of relief ...

(2 pages) 74 3 4.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

MCAS: Are you for or against it? Analysis of an editorial + my own opinions on MCAS test administration

f competition; MCAS just reduces the time for judging who's on top and who's on bottom. Why did the legislators in this state pick MCAS? It was made by this state and it stays in this state. This enab ... rs ago; the average scores on other standardized tests have increased by at least 30%. If the state legislators took away the MCAS, Massachusetts wouldn't be a very good state to live and learn in.The ...

(3 pages) 45 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Secondary Education Gone Wrong

ver one billion dollars for the classes each year. The writer points out that at least eight states legislators have pushed the remedial classes out of four-year state universities and into two-year c ...

(4 pages) 67 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

Examine the Controversy that Surrounds the Question of what Judges are doing when they are deciding Cases.

erforming that function. Judges are not, in this country, elected, as are the other law-makers (the legislators). If judges had no law-making role, then the uncertainty over judicial decision making w ...

(14 pages) 118 1 1.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Black Codes in the Former Confederate States

esident Johnson's evident intention to return to them the management of their own affairs, Southern legislators, elected by white voters, passed what came to be called Black Codes. Their very evident ...

(12 pages) 80 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Should Same Sex marriage be Allowed?

er's child. A reason why the Vermont same-sex union battle received so much nation press is because legislators were responding to a court order, while some ended up losing their jobs to same-sex unio ...

(6 pages) 214 2 4.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Schizophrenia

significance to manyindividuals with serious mental disorders. At both the state and federal levels,legislators looked at the high cost of long-term psychiatric hospitalization. Socialscientists guara ...

(7 pages) 146 2 4.1 Dec/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Pathology of failure in governance VS the board's real strategic contribution.

ted attention of a growing number of governments, regulatory bodies, professional organizations and legislators across the globe in recent years since collapses and scandals occurred at some famed mul ... ed financial markets therefore restoring investor's confidence. In reality, professional bodies and legislators have made contributions to achieve this goal. For instance, in the United States, the pr ...

(13 pages) 140 0 5.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Civil Right

mbiguity shrouds the meaning of almost every important phrase. In practice, rights are what courts, legislators, presidents, and governors say they are.The meaning of civil rights has changed greatly ...

(1 pages) 33 0 4.3 Apr/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights